A Moche Skeleton Vessel
Sale 910 - Antiquities & Ethnographic Art
Nov 18, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Estimate
$4,000 -
6,000
Price Realized
$5,000
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Lot Description
A Moche Skeleton Vessel
Peru, Circa 500-700 A.D.
Height 8 1/2 inches (21 cm).
Property from the Collection of JRM, Washington, D.C.
Provenance:
Sothebys, New York, Pre-Columbian Art, 14 May 1996, Lot 199.
Scott and Stuart Gentling Collection
Bonhams, New York, African, Oceanic & Pre Columbian Art, 12 November 2014, Lot 129.
Note:
For a nearly identical example of a skeleton playing a flute vessel, see M. Schmit, Kunst und Kultur von Peru, Berlin, 1929, p. 170.
Note:
For a nearly identical example of a skeleton playing a flute vessel, see M. Schmit, Kunst und Kultur von Peru, Berlin, 1929, p. 170.
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